Rajshahi.

What a place to see. This week was spent devleoping some Multilingual Education materials for the Kol and Koda ethnolinguistic groups, but it was also an opportunity for me to get out of Dhaka and see some other landscapes of Bangladesh. It was great to see this NGO in action as well as enjoy some countryside. Below are some photos from my week.

We arrived to have this statue of mangoes (pronounced "am" in Bangla) welcome us to the Rajshahi region. Later that week I was to buy six kilos of mangoes...

Some sweet and curious women I found working a little deeper inside the community. They were camera shy.

Some other women taking a break in their fields amidst that humid air. You simply cannot escape it, even if you leave Dhaka.

There are still many "jams" in Rajshahi, just more of the man-powered type than motorized.

Here are some shots of everyone hard at work, developing, critiquing, and celebrating the fact that Multilingual Education is being made possible for children of the Kol and Koda communities, by the Kol and Koda communities. No Coca-cola sponsorship out here.
It's truly inspiring.

Everyone who took part in some way this week.

On one of the final evenings, our team visited the Padma riverbank, one of the largest rivers in Bangladesh. Here, it is a place of leisure and labor, beauty and squalor all in one scene, as seems to be the way of Bangladesh.

The sunsets out this way were quiet and and also quite enjoyable.